Isa 13
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The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.
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Set you up an ensign upon the bare mountain, lift up the voice to them, wave the hand,
that they may go into the gates of the nobles.
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I have commanded my consecrated ones, yea, I have called my mighty men for mine anger,
even my proudly exulting ones.
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The noise of a multitude in the mountains, as of a great people! the noise of a tumult
of the kingdoms of the nations gathered together! YHWH of hosts is mustering the host
for the battle.
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They come from a far country, from the uttermost part of heaven, even YHWH, and the
weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.
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Wail you; for the day of YHWH is at hand; as destruction from the Almighty shall it
come.
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Therefore shall all hands be feeble, and every heart of man shall melt:
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and they shall be dismayed; pangs and sorrows shall take hold [of them]; they shall
be in pain as a woman in travail: they shall look in amazement one at another; their
faces [shall be] faces of flame.
9
Behold, the day of YHWH comes, cruel, with anger and fierce anger; to make the land
a desolation, and to destroy its sinners out of it.
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For the stars of heaven and its constellations shall not give their light;
the sun shall be darkened in its going forth, and the moon shall not cause its light
to shine.
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And I will punish the world for [their] evil, and the wicked for their iniquity: and
I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness
of the terrible.
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I will make a man more rare than fine gold, even a man than the pure gold of Ophir.
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Therefore I will make the heavens to tremble, and the earth shall be shaken out of
its place, in the anger of YHWH of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.
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And it shall come to pass, that as the chased roe, and as sheep that no man gathers,
they shall turn every man to his own people, and shall flee every man to his own land.
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Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is taken shall
fall by the sword.
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Their infants also shall be dashed in pieces before their eyes; their houses shall
be rifled, and their wives ravished.
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Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who shall not regard silver, and as
for gold, they shall not delight in it.
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And [their] bows shall dash the young men in pieces; and they shall have no pity on
the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children.
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And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans` pride, shall be as
when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
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It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation:
neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall shepherds make their flocks
to lie down there.
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But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful
creatures; and ostriches shall dwell there, and wild goats shall dance there.
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And wolves shall cry in their castles, and jackals in the pleasant palaces: and her
time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.